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| David Morgan
arrived on earth with a natural-born love for music, and deep attraction to singing, which
led him to master more than 50 Christmas carols, as well as the entire soundtrack to Porgy
and Bess, by the age of two. (Something he would never mention, but his parents are still
proud!) He spent the rest of his childhood organizing his family into 3 and 4 and 5 part
harmonies to every popular song anybody knew, and then gracefully endured their attempts
to remember their parts. At twelve years of age, he formed his first band, and a career was born. He played and sang everywhere in the environs of his hometown of Hinsdale, Illinois, then during college years, spent his summers driving himself, his dog, and his guitar across the country in his Corvair Manza, either rocking out, or singing folk songs, (depending on the year), coast to coast. Inevitably landing in Los Angeles, David immediately attracted attention on the music landscape. He toured, and recorded as a singer/keyboard player, with the Association, Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band, and also recorded with a number of artists, including Jim Messina, Little Richard, Leonard Cohen, Tom Wopat, Chuck Negron (of Three Dog Night), Delaney Bramlett, Bonnie Tyler, Kenny Rogers, Dodie Stevens, etc. He worked for years with Mike Post, as well as with George Martin, Ray Charles (who recorded his song, "Now I Don't Believe That Anymore"), Dolly Parton, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Bruce Hornsby. After becoming a father, first to Evan, then to Sam, James, and Nancy Leigh, he turned his energies toward work which kept him close to home. He had tremendous success as a studio session player and singer for commercials, television and film soundtracks, and he sang the theme songs for "Hardcastle and McCormick," and "Who's the Boss." His film work included tracks on "Teen Wolf," "Rhinestone," "Bitter Harvest," and "Thunder Run;" television soundtrack credits include "Hill Street Blues," "Cop Rock," (where he appeared as a singing bad guy), "Roseanne," "Wiseguy," "Magnum, P.I.," etc. During his years of studio performing, he continued to write songs, and perform them, which ultimately is where the heart of his artistry lies. Theater and television performer Christine Healy summed it up perfectly when she wrote, "First, his voice...what a gift!...so full of life experience, so soulful and sexy and rich with pain, and joy, and the incredible complexities that are life itself,...a direct auditory expression of the human heart...it makes me weep." From the wonder of infancy through the burial of a loved one, from the joy of love and attraction, and the pain of loss and fear, David's songs are sung artfully, movingly, by a man who's been there, and it shows. In what can only be viewed as divine grace, David met and married his true soul mate, singer/musician Alicia McCracken Morgan, for whom he wrote the song "Wouldn't Change a Thing." They live in Sherman Oaks, California. |
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